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Elections to Spain's legislature, the Cortes Generales, were held on 19 November 1933 for all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes of the Second Spanish Republic.Since the previous elections of 1931, a new constitution had been ratified, and the franchise extended to more than six million women.
Soon, Azaña lost parliamentary support and President Alcalá-Zamora forced his resignation in September 1933. The subsequent 1933 election was won by the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA). However the President declined to invite its leader, Gil Robles, to form a government, fearing CEDA's monarchist sympathies.
Citizens were so confused about who could vote in this election, that a newspaper needed to explain, stating: "All Spanish citizens over twenty-one years of age, without distinction of sex, state or profession, have the right and obligation to take part in the referendum vote, freely casting the ballot for or against the legislative draft ...
The victory of conservative factions in the 1933 elections was blamed on women, and their voting practices in that election. They were viewed as being controlled by the Church. [9] Basque women were able to go to the polls in a regional autonomy referendum 15 days before the national elections on 5 November 1933.
Gil Robles set up CEDA to contest the 1933 Spanish general election. [11] Despite dismissing the idea of a party as a 'rigid fiction', the CEDA leaders created a stable party organisation which would lead the Spanish right into the age of mass politics. [12]
In case of the 1933 balloting the number of Carlist deputies listed by various authors ranges from 19 to 24 [18] (4.0% to 5.1%) and in case of the 1936 elections the discrepancy is between 9 and 16 [19] (2.1% to 3.5%).
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